>>717756026
Not that guy, but IIRC you can start running laser ships with around laser damage 17/18 for inner planets with rare thrusters, but you need around 23/24 for legendary thrusters. Aquilo ships with laser aren't really feasibly in practice, at best they'll be meme ships.

Note that while laser is viable at higher research levels, it will never beat gun turrets. You can use them because they're cool and you like them, but if you build for performance, you don't build ANY laser turrets at the front of your ship.Not even for small asteroids. I've built multiple designs of my ships in both a gun version and a laser version, and the gun ships have always performed better. Gun turrets need lower research, fewer turrets, can fly faster, use less UPS and scale better with research. At higher research levels you destroy asteroids almost instantly and use almost no ammo. And you can even run solar instead of fusion for the inner planets.